1. The Dirty South shall protect the right of any citizen to use lethal force to protect his life, liberty, or property.2. The Dirty South shall prosecute any person who attempts to violate someone else's right to life, liberty, and property to the fullest extent of the law, regardless of the suspect's profession.

1. It shall be legal to induce an abortion in the Southeast Region until the end of the second trimester of the pregnancy, after which point it shall be against the law, except in the case of a severe threat to the mother's health or the mother having been impregnated through an act of rape.

2. Any individual who induces a prohibited abortion shall have any existing licence from the Southeast Region or a subdivision thereof to practice a medical profession revoked.

3. Any individual who knowingly induces a prohibited abortion shall be sentenced to up to three years in prison. Any person knowingly facilitating the inducement of a prohibited abortion shall be subject to a criminal fine of up to $5,000.

4a. Any state statutes legislating abortion existing at the time of this bill's passage are superseded.

1. It shall be legal to induce an abortion in the Southeast Region until the end of the second trimester of the pregnancy, after which point it shall be against the law, except in the case of a severe threat to the mother's health or the mother having been impregnated through an act of rape.

2. Any individual who induces a prohibited abortion shall have any existing licence from the Southeast Region or a subdivision thereof to practice a medical profession revoked.

3. Any individual who induces a prohibited abortion shall be sentenced to three years in prison. Any person knowingly facilitating the inducement of a prohibited abortion shall be subject to a criminal fine of $500,000.

4a. Any state statutes legislating abortion existing at the time of this bill's passage are superseded.

4b. 17. Abortion Initiative is superseded.

Nitpicker alert:

Shouldn't Section 3 read "up to" 3 years prison and/or $500k fine? Otherwise this requires a mandatory sentence and fine that no court could even partially suspend as the facts of the case dictate.

Also shouldn't both penalties require "knowing" inducement rather than just the potential fine? Otherwise this imposes strict liability for the most innocent of accidents, like slipping on the sidewalk, that induces a third trimester "abortion" punishable by 3 years incarceration.

Finally FWIW, after a brief scan of RL laws I can't find any crime that permits a maximum fine of more than a tiny fraction of $500k. There may be some federal corporate pollution or insider trading statutes that allow something in that neighborhood, but as a fine against an individual criminal offender even a tenth this would be almost unheard of.

1. It shall be legal to induce an abortion in the Southeast Region until the end of the second trimester of the pregnancy, after which point it shall be against the law, except in the case of a severe threat to the mother's health or the mother having been impregnated through an act of rape.

2. Any individual who induces a prohibited abortion shall have any existing licence from the Southeast Region or a subdivision thereof to practice a medical profession revoked.

3. Any individual who induces a prohibited abortion shall be sentenced to three years in prison. Any person knowingly facilitating the inducement of a prohibited abortion shall be subject to a criminal fine of $500,000.

4a. Any state statutes legislating abortion existing at the time of this bill's passage are superseded.

4b. 17. Abortion Initiative is superseded.

Nitpicker alert:

Shouldn't Section 3 read "up to" 3 years prison and/or $500k fine? Otherwise this requires a mandatory sentence and fine that no court could even partially suspend as the facts of the case dictate.

Also shouldn't both penalties require "knowing" inducement rather than just the potential fine? Otherwise this imposes strict liability for the most innocent of accidents, like slipping on the sidewalk, that induces a third trimester "abortion" punishable by 3 years incarceration.

Finally FWIW, after a brief scan of RL laws I can't find any crime that permits a maximum fine of more than a tiny fraction of $500k. There may be some federal corporate pollution or insider trading statutes that allow something in that neighborhood, but as a fine against an individual criminal offender even a tenth this would be almost unheard of.

Thank you for the advice. I'll admit actually that I based it directly on the region's current statute regarding abortion with very few changes to the wording. I suppose that even if I can't convince my colleagues to make abortion more available, we can at least make the criminal consequences less draconian.

1. It shall be the right of any property owner to defend his/her property from any person (hereafter referred to as an intruder) who s/he reasonably believes has come onto his/her property with the intent to bring harm and/or cause damage against the property, the property owner, or any guest of the property owner, and who the property owner believes constitutes a direct threat in the intruder's current state.

2. Should a property owner maim or kill an intruder in compliance with this act, that person shall be immune to any and all civil actions arising from the actions of the property owner in response to the actions of the intruder.

3. A property owner acting in compliance with this act shall not be legally bound by any duty to retreat, and may use an amount of force against the intruder that the property owner reasonably believes is necessary to stop the attack, after having given a visual, verbal, or other auditory warning.

Since the legislature has nothing up now, I will propose a very modest bill, so we are at least doing something:

Amendment to the Abortion Initiative

Section 3 of 17. Abortion Initiative is amended to read: Any individual who knowingly induces a prohibited abortion shall be sentenced to three years in prison. Any person knowingly facilitating the inducement of a prohibited abortion shall be subject to a criminal fine of $500,000.

1. All restaurants or other places of food or beverage service in the Southeast region shall be required to list nutritional facts of all food, beverages, or other edible substances served in their places of service.

2. Acceptable locations for this information are menus, packaging, and large wall displays.

3. Failure to comply shall result in forfeiture of any sales made without aforementioned information being available.

1. It shall be the responsibility of the Speaker of the Legislature to maintain a schedule of upcoming bills.

2. The Speaker of the Legislature shall give each newly proposed bill a place in the schedule, which may not be directly altered after that space has been selected.

3. Any Legislator may at any time motion to alter the order of bills in the schedule. The motion shall be voted on in a thread separate from that used for ordinary legislative business and shall pass if a majority of Legislators vote in the affirmative.

4. The current schedule shall be made available to any citizen of the Southeast on request.

5. At any point when a bill is open for debate, the Lt. Governor may express his/her opposition to it and decline to open a final vote on that bill. If 48 hours pass after a quorum of the Legislature agrees to end debate without the final vote being opened, the Lt. Governor shall be considered to be in opposition to it.

6. Should the Lt. Governor be in opposition to a bill, any Legislator may motion for the power to open a final vote.

7. Any petitioning Legislator shall be empowered to open the final vote on a bill if three-quarters of sitting Legislators support the motion for the power to open a final vote.